The Clot, Read — Shabbir Ahmed Translation – Parallel Quran

1 The Clot

اقْرَأْ بِاسْمِ رَبِّكَ الَّذِي خَلَقَ

Read! With the Name of your Lord Who created

Iqra/ bi-ismi rabbika allathee khalaqa

خَلَقَ الْإِنسَانَ مِنْ عَلَقٍ

Created man from a zygote

Khalaqa al-insana min AAalaqin

اقْرَأْ وَرَبُّكَ الْأَكْرَمُ

Read! For, your Lord is the Most Generous. (He has placed a tremendous blessing in learning and teaching)

Iqra/ warabbuka al-akramu

الَّذِي عَلَّمَ بِالْقَلَمِ

Who has taught the use of the pen

Allathee AAallama bialqalami

عَلَّمَ الْإِنسَانَ مَا لَمْ يَعْلَمْ

Taught man what he knew not

AAallama al-insana ma lam yaAAlam

كَلَّا إِنَّ الْإِنسَانَ لَيَطْغَىٰ

Nay, verily, man tries to play God! ('Tagha' = Being a false god, 'Taghut' = Grossly overweening = Arrogance beyond limits = Creating rebellion = Trespassing Divine Values)

Kalla inna al-insana layatgha

أَن رَّآهُ اسْتَغْنَىٰ

(And) in that he looks upon himself as self-sufficient. (Forgetting how indebted he is to the Creator and the society for all his mental and physical possessions)

An raahu istaghna

إِنَّ إِلَىٰ رَبِّكَ الرُّجْعَىٰ

Behold, unto your Lord is the return. (Everything that exists goes back to the Creator as its Source and is bound by His Law. All people will be returned to Him for Judgment. Mankind will eventually return to the Divine System of life)

Inna ila rabbika alrrujAAa

أَرَأَيْتَ الَّذِي يَنْهَىٰ

Have you seen the kind of man who forbids

Araayta allathee yanha

عَبْدًا إِذَا صَلَّىٰ

Another servant when he follows the Divine Messages

AAabdan itha salla

أَرَأَيْتَ إِن كَانَ عَلَى الْهُدَىٰ

Have you seen that if such a person were on the right road

Araayta in kana AAala alhuda

أَوْ أَمَرَ بِالتَّقْوَىٰ

Or his affairs were to lead him to Blissful security

Aw amara bialttaqwa

أَرَأَيْتَ إِن كَذَّبَ وَتَوَلَّىٰ

Mark out that he, then, would have known that, by thus practically denying the Truth, he is turning away from all that is good

Araayta in kaththaba watawalla

أَلَمْ يَعْلَم بِأَنَّ اللَّهَ يَرَىٰ

Does he not know that Allah sees to it that His Laws are enforced without exception

Alam yaAAlam bi-anna Allaha yara

كَلَّا لَئِن لَّمْ يَنتَهِ لَنَسْفَعًا بِالنَّاصِيَةِ

Nay, if such a person desists not, We (Our Law of Requital) will seize him by the forelock (to a state of humiliation (11:56))

Kalla la-in lam yantahi lanasfaAAan bialnnasiyati

نَاصِيَةٍ كَاذِبَةٍ خَاطِئَةٍ

A forelock that is given to denial and committing fault upon fault

Nasiyatin kathibatin khati-atin</b

فَلْيَدْعُ نَادِيَهُ

Let him, then, call upon his advisory council

FalyadAAu nadiyahu

سَنَدْعُ الزَّبَانِيَةَ

We shall summon the apprehending forces

SanadAAu alzzabaniyata

كَلَّا لَا تُطِعْهُ وَاسْجُدْ وَاقْتَرِب

Nay, never be intimidated by a man like this! But submit completely in adoration to Divine Commands, and let every step of yours bring you nearer to your noble Goal

Kalla la tutiAAhu waosjud waiqtarib

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